Found my first Mapsurfer box last weekend! One down, many more to go...

Replanted The Watcher today.

My dining room table is covered with carving tools, ink pads, etc. I need to get going on my project and get that planted and out of the way. But first, a nap...

We're heading out tomorrow to do some serious boxing. I'm going after a couple of mystery boxes that piggy-back off of some known boxes that I have yet to find. I think I've figured out what I could thus far and hope that the rest will make sense once I get there.

That being said, my printer ran out of ink! I'm contemplating writing out the clues to other boxes in the area by hand. In the dark, of course, because the lightbulb blew out in the computer room and I only have the glow of the monitor to guide me.

I was all ready to plant my mystery box tomorrow as well, but then I realized that I need to wait until after the weekend is over, as there will be tens of thousands of people in the area for an event this weekend - I don't want it getting muggled it's first day out!

Wish me luck tomorrow...!

Posting twice in one day - I must be excited!

Finished recarving The Watcher as well as another mystery stamp whose clues will be in very limited distribution (read: only available to a select few). It's a really nice stamp - a bit artsy a la my Lance Armstrong hitchhiker, where you kind of have to stare at it and then voila! I see it now... I just have to make the logbook, and then hopefully I can plant it tomorrow or Tuesday.

Also formulating a stamp idea for a bonus box off of The Watcher. The clue for the bonus box has the potential to give away the entire area (and thereby not making it much of a mystery), so I think I'll email it to those boxers that have listed their Watcher find via AQ or email, instead of just posting it as a mystery to the mystery. In any case, The Watcher should be replanted no later than the end of next weekend.

So...last wrote in this thing a year ago. Can't say I've done much boxing since then. Only recently have I returned to thinking about it a lot. Who knew that it would take 3 years to get the house really in order and my garden self-sustaining so that I could actually leave Philly on the weekends!?

Recently found some boxes up in the Allentown area, and then found some over by Valley Forge. Doing some work on some Mapsurferian puzzles, and I think I just figured out She Turned Me Into a Newt. I have to actually go and find these boxes now - I've found that I tend to solve the puzzles for the sake of exercising my brain, but then I don't follow through and get the box!

On my To Do list:
* Pull my Ben Franklin series for some much needed maintenance and stamp recarving
* Recarve/rehide The Watcher, as it's definitely gone missing
* Hide some new boxes
* Purchase new letterboxing journal, as I've filled my original one up (only 113 finds, but I'm definitely not in it for the PFX numbers!!)

It's good to be "back"!